cant mount drive

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Thornton wrote:
>>And does VMWare grab the cdrom for Window's use such that Linux can't 
>>use it anymore?  ie, does VMWare automount the D: (or whatever drive) 
>>before your can mount the drive in Linux?
> 
> 
> My understanding of it is vmware only grabs the hardware while it is
> actually utilized.  I have not even started vmware daring this bootup so
> it shouldn't have anything to do with it.  At least thats my
> understanding how vmware works.
> 

So there are no VMWare processes running while you are trying this. 
You've checked "ps" ....

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